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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Ind. Law - "Dems might take hike to oppose Toll Road lease"
The ILB has not ccovered the toll road issue, but this story from today's Munster (NW Indiana) Times, by Royal M. Hopper III, bears watching:
MERRILLVILLE | It appears the lease of the Indiana Toll Road to an Australian-Spanish consortium is all but signed, but Senate Democrats are considering a legislative walkout as a last-ditch bid to thwart the deal, state Sen. Karen Tallian told a town hall meeting Saturday.The plan to lease the 157-mile highway across northern Indiana for $3.8 billion to an Australian-Spanish consortium that would operate and maintain the road for 75 years is pending in the Senate after it narrowly won approval last month in the Indiana House. The proposal is expected to come up for a vote in June, but not if Senate Democrats can help it.
They might emulate outnumbered Texas Democrats who two years ago went to Oklahoma to deny the Legislature the quorum it needed to hold a vote on congressional redistricting that Democrats considered too gerrymandered.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 26, 2006 12:45 PM
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